Thursday, May 7, 2015

Tolkien Estate's New Website (quick guide)

So, finding that the new Tolkien Estate website* is chock-full of good things, I thought a little cheat sheet might help folks see just how much is already up on the site. Accordingly, I've taken their sitemap** that comes at the bottom of their list of links and expanded it out by adding the author's names, where I knew them, next to the titles of individual pieces on specific works. Here's the result. Hope it's helpful.

The Lord of the Rings:
How to Survive Fear and Despair—Dr. Nicole Guedeney [to
come]

Lord of the Rings,
Book of the Century—T. A. Shippey

The Lord of the Rings:
Adventure Story?—Vincent Ferre

Understanding Beowulf—Leo
Carruthers (Sorbonne)

The Legend of Sigurd
and Gudrun—Christopher Tolkien (website original)

III. PAINTING

The Book of Ishness

Pictures from Father Christmas

Trees

Landscapes

Calligraphy

Maps

Website illustrations

Photographs

IV. PATHS

F.A.Q.

—Biographical information

J. R. R. Tolkien and Fantasy

Literary Questions

Invented Languages and Names

Permissions and Requests

Glossary: Terms and Definitions

Links

Publishers and Periodicals

Libraries

Medieval Texts

Modern Texts

Sigurd and Gudrun

Art and Artists

Biographical links

Contributors

Other

Downloads [to come]

Using Our Website

Sitemap

Credits and Contact

--I've already found a lot that looks v. interesting, and wish I weren't in the middle of a deadline and so had time to give it the close look it deserves. But then I suspect I'll be coming back to this website a lot in the years to come.

Thanks for this overview of the new site. It's like a third reference encyclopedia on Tolkien and his work, shorter and easier to navigate, to supplement Hammond & Scull's Companion and Guide and Drout's JRRT Encyclopedia.